Can it happen again in the US? Is this a good example of a bill of attainder?
2007-09-30 06:47:25 · 8 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Lucky: Even though you might not get this message, I will still ask. Does the President also have the right to suspend constitutional rights of their citizens?
2007-09-30 07:33:10 · update #1
FDR signed Executive Order 9066 and over 100,000 Japanese civilians were relocated out of their homes and businesses. Greatest piece of c r a p ever done to an American citizen. The idea that the Asians could sneak around and spy, while all those blond and blue German-Americans walk around doing whatever is mind-numbingly unspeakable. Even J. Edgar Hoover, one of the most paranoid obsessive-compulsive bigots on the plant thought that this was wrong.
Wow.
Sorry, I guess you hit a nerve.
2007-09-30 12:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pres. Roosevelt signed executive order #9066. It is and was legal. No, I do not believe that it was morally right thing to do. It was, on the other hand, very effective for what they wanted it to accomplish. It was not a good example of a bill attainder, and yes, something similar could happen again in the U.S.
Should it....NO!
2007-09-30 15:08:19 · answer #2 · answered by TLB 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Executive Order 9066, whose constitutionality was (to the unending disgrace of the United States) upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States.
A bill of attainder is basically a legislative finding that a person or group is guilty of something, and rendering punishment. No finding of guilt was issued, so no.
2007-09-30 16:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did the same thing here in Canada too. But, it was realized, many years too late, that we were wrong. They or their survivors have been reimbursed. Regardless of Japanese background, these people were born Canadians.
We took all their property, their belongings and left them with nothing during the war and they didn't get it back.
2007-09-30 14:04:15 · answer #4 · answered by gemma 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In wartime, when people feel that other people can be a danger, legal rights go out the window. It is a reminder that no place can be absolutely safe.
2007-09-30 15:08:39 · answer #5 · answered by Pascha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a time of war the President has the ability to do whatever he/she likes
2007-09-30 14:15:59 · answer #6 · answered by Chara Pointshot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Military Ordrs -- protect the people internally from Japanese sympahty izers... Sabotures and spies...
2007-09-30 13:53:41 · answer #7 · answered by Gerald 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
one of the thousands of presidential executive orders
2007-09-30 16:04:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋